Ten of the best picnic recipes

This delicious Chickpea ‘Tuna’ Salad can be served many ways! Use it as a dip, as a side salad, or add it to your favourite sandwich. Nori sprinkle adds a ‘fish flavour’ and black salt adds ‘egg’ flavour to this amazing vegan recipe

These little stuffed peppers make a delightful addition to picnics. Filled with a spiced tofu mixture, you can enjoy these hot or cold. Our recipe makes 8 stuffed baby peppers, super simple and packed with flavours.

Our stuffed rice balls make a great addition to picnics. They are really similar to traditional sushi rolls, but bigger and you can stuff them with your favourite fillings. Why not try adding chilli tofu or sesame seaweed salad? Serve with soy sauce and wasabi sauce.

Sunflower seeds really are the MVP in this article. You can use them to make such delicious spreads and dips! They are much cheaper than nuts and a little goes a long way. We’ve used them to make our delicious creamy cheeze alternative spread. It tastes amazing spread onto bread and topped with fresh veggies. A picnic-must-have!

Turn up at any picnic or BBQ with these beauties and you will instantly be everyone’s  best friend. They are almost too pretty to eat…almost. Top with your favourite freeze dried fruits!

This recipe requires no effort and no skill, just patience and desire to eat a really yummy Italian focaccia! It’s a really fun dish to take to a picnic, enjoy with your favourite summer dip. We love making pretty scenes on ours, get creative! It’s a great recipe to have your kids help with.

Our vegan take on the famous artichoke dip! The secret ingredient in our popular recipe is sunflower seeds. They help make this super creamy without the need for dairy. We love taking a pot of this on picnics, you can spread it on baguettes or dip crackers into it! A guaranteed crowdpleaser!

The vast majority of us know that cheapo choccy bars are disastrous for our waistline, our teeth, our blood sugar and our gut biome, but most of us still snaffle one every now and then when we think no-one’s looking! But here’s a fantastic way you can eat one without undergoing the awful sugar-slump and unhealthy body effects. We’ve thrown out the refined sugar in favour of Maple Syrup and Medjool Dates, and made a delectable ‘nougat’ layer using mineral-packed Cashew Nuts. Make sure you get one for yourself before they’re all gone!

Falafels are one of the most lovely dishes to come from the Middle East, and have been a much-loved staple of vegan and vegetarian cooking for thousands of years. Falafels are full of healthy Chickpeas and sometimes incorporate other pulses like fava beans or (as in this recipe) Lentils. They’re nearly always fried, which threatens to mitigate all the beneficial effects of the ingredients – but we tried baking them instead, and they’re fantastic! We’ve also added Sun-Dried Tomatoes to give them an extra-flavoursome savoury layer. We think they’ll make any picnic go with a bang!

You can’t get a much simpler recipe than stuffed dates. There’s no cooking involved, and we know that kids love to join in making them, although they – and we – often tend to eat them as we make them, and they never actually make it as far as the picnic! These beauties combine lovely, creamy, natural Almond Butter with the nutritious and sweetly-flavoured Freeze-Dried Strawberries, which give them a gorgeous burst of red colour and a healthy array of vitamins as well as the fibre from the dates and protein from the almonds.